 | John Wood - United States - 1802 - 522 pages
...might be opened for the establishment of peace; and he soon after received other powers to negociate a loan of money for the use of the United States ;...Adams, a monarchy, limited by an aristocratical and a democrat-/ ical power in the constitution, is the most perfect government of any. " The English," he... | |
 | John Wood - United States - 1802 - 560 pages
...Minister Plenipotentiary, to their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces. While iQ Europe, Mr. Adams published his Defence of the Constitutions...of the United States of America. To ascertain the politi<^J creed of Mr. Adams, it is only necessary to consider a few passages in the preface to this... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...money for the use of the United States, and to represent them as their minister plcni]xitcntiary to the States General of the United Provinces. While in Europe, Mr. Adams published his work upon the constitutions of America, in which he advocates, as the fundamental principles of a free... | |
 | John Adams - Presidents - 1823 - 456 pages
...at least contribute to remove their unbelief. In the 26th letter, vol. I, p. 129, London edition, of his "Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America," the doubting reader may find a solution of the apparent enigma. There Mr. Adams says, " The... | |
 | Timothy Pickering - United States - 1824 - 220 pages
...at least contribute to remove their unbelief. In the 26th letter, vol. I, p. 129, London edition, of his "Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America," the doubting reader may find a solution of the apparent enigma. There Mr. Adams says, " The... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...Adams was included by Jefferson among the believers in monarchy. The following are a few sentences from his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, which we take in preference to a multitude of others, simply because we find them already... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...Adams was included by Jefferson among the believers in monarchy. The following are a few sentences from his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, which we take in preference to a multitude of others, simply because we find them already... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1891 - 654 pages
...J February 21, 1787. * It cannot be doubted that John Adams was a stanch Federalist. Yet Adams, in his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, which he published in 1 786, made the remark : " Congress is not a legislative, but a diplomatic... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Authors - 1898 - 528 pages
...passages deserving a place in the permanent record of human thought. Prominent among these works is his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, first published in London, in 1787, while the author was our Minister in England. The Defence... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - United States - 1898 - 446 pages
...in other words without separating the executive power from the legislature." This passage occurs in his " Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America," written in reply to a criticism by Turgot on American institutions. The great French publicist... | |
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The third advantage of the government the Fathers were designing was pointed out most elaborately by John Adams in the first volume of his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America... 
